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Signs And Symbols Vladimir Nabokov Summary

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In the short story Signs and symbols, Vladimir Nabokov shows a story of an elderly couple who has a deranged son. It is the birthday of their mental son, and they are trying to figure out what would be right to buy him since anything manufactured was evil to him. After they took out many gift ideas that they realized would not work out, they finally found a harmless gift for him. It was a basket filled with ten jars with ten different fruit jellies. The time came for them to go see their son that Friday for his birthday. That day, everything went downhill. They went to the station to take the subway. ¨The subway train lost its life current between two stations and for a quarter of an hour they could hear nothing but the dutiful beating of their hearts and the rustling of newspapers.¨ They were waiting there a while for the next bus they had to take. When it got there, it was full of loud teenagers. …show more content…

¨ The nurse then said that he's okay but it would be better if they did not visit him. The parents were upset because they wanted to see his son on his

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